You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.